Coffee Facts
Why Choose Whole Bean Over Pre-Ground Coffee?
- Whole Beans can be stored up to 45 days as apposed to only 9 days for Ground Coffee
- When you grind coffee the aroma and flavor leave quickly causing the quality of the coffee to diminish
- Ground coffee can pick up other aromas in the air causing the natural flavor of the bean to change
- When you grind the Whole Beans yourself, there is less risk of contamination of flavor
- Grinding your own coffee allows you to have control over the fineness of the grind. The finer the grind, the more burnt your coffee will taste.
- You know when you buy Whole Beans you are receiving quality. Pre-ground coffee from the grocery store could have been mixed with any number of blends. R&R Bean ensures that this will not happen.
- Ground coffee is affected more easily by heat, air, moisture, and even light. These all deteriorate the flavor
- Whole Beans allow you control over what you drink in the morning. A simple $10 grinder will allow you to enjoy your coffee 10x more than you would with a grocery store brand ground coffee.
- Because R&R Bean ensures a person, not a machine, has control over your grind you can be sure to receive quality each and every order.
- 50% of Americans admit to drinking coffee daily. 30% of other Americans admit to drinking coffee occasionally. The other 20% don't live in reality.
- There are 24 steps in producing the cup of coffee you drink in the morning
- People have been drinking coffee for 700 years. However, what historians know about coffee dates back 1000 years!
- At one point it was illegal to drink coffee. The punishment for disobeying? Being put into a leather bag and then thrown into the sea! YIKES!
- In 1600 the Pope blessed coffee making it an acceptable Christian beverage. This caused coffee to spread wildly throughout Italy.
- Coffee is the 2nd most traded commodity in the world. The first? Oil.
- Want to stay fit? A black cup of coffee (no milk, no sugar) contains ZERO calories.
- Coffee studies have shown positive results in the improvement of women's mental health and memory.
- You thought Espresso had the most caffeine, didn't you? It actually only has 1/3 the amount of a regular cup of coffee.
- Goats discovered the coffee plant.
